Matter - Zigbee Network Compatibility

[Vediyappan Villali]

I have a light switch in matter fabric (network) and light bulb in Zigbee network. I need to turn on and off the Zigbee light bulb with matter light switch. How to achieve this with nRF connect SDK?

[Marte Myrvold]

Hi,

You need a bridge for the devices to be able to communicate.
Matter devices use IPv6 for addressing, either using Wi-Fi or Thread as their network stack, while Zigbee is a non-IP based protocol. Therefore, you will need a bridge to translate addresses between the two networks.

We do not have any solution for this in the nRF Connect SDK as of now. There are some options using commercially available devices, however, I am not aware of any Matter - Zigbee bridges that are available on the market right now. Philips has announced that their Philips Hue bridge v2 will get Matter support eventually, but they have not set a date for this.
With the devices available right now, you can use a hub with Matter support from a commercial ecosystem, such as Google Home, Apple Home, Samsung SmartThings or Amazon Alexa, together with a Zigbee bridge that is supported by the Matter hub.

Best regards,
Marte

[Vediyappan Villali]

Hi Marte,

Thank you for the info.

Consider, I have a bridge with bridge-app trying to send a command (say ON command to ON/OFF cluster with cluster ID as 0x006) to NCP host sample application (simple gateway), can the request from bridge-app handled?

Regards,

Vediyappan V.

[Marte Myrvold]

Hi,

This depends on what is supported by the bridge and the bridge app.

Best regards,
Marte